JANUARY 9; 1953

l contract Bridge

rAG E ELEVEN

11': GUARDIAN. Cl-IARLDTTETOWN King Of The Royal Mounted

clai-ed Thunderer. as he reached ior another bud.

"Because you belong in the Green

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. Fnrest!" declared Sammy Jay. who

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A Moo-I QUESTXON U . , you do!" retorted Thunderer. . 3'7-cthvs ., I ex

yin Vt ”Dee, dee. dee, .dee! Oi course - - r tli 5,, O. The hummg guesuon about the I go wt, - you do, I was just surprised to see

l you over here," replied Tomlny Tit

inllowing hand is: Whose error '-""""'

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more realistically, that he could not be aatisiied with only two spade tricks e- was unfortunate. 'I'hero are paradoxes in bridge, and this hand contains one .111 them. Despite South's two sure trump

- losers. he did not have to worry

about losing 2 made trick! Wmntn: play rould srarcclv be easier. After confirming the trump situation, south simply runs a heart. cashed the three club tricks. and ruff: another heart. Now he

jolly. round, bright Mr. sun first peeped into the Old Orchard, Thunderer and Mrs, Grouse were already there getting breakfast.

How good those buds did taste! They were a welcome change. They were sweeter than the spruce buds I suspect. that Thunderlzr would have smacked his lips if he l1ad had anv lips to smack. As it was he just filled his crap as fast as he could He was greedy. Yes. sir.. he was greedy Could you have seen him you miszht have thought that

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palm 52. Weaken!

DAILY CRYPTOQUOTE-Here's how to. work it: A X Y D L B A A X It

IILONGFELLOW , One letter simply stands for another. In this example A is mind, tor the three L's, X for the two Ols, ctr. Single letters. apos- trophiea, the length and formation of the words are all hintl.

Each day the code letters are different.

A Cryptogl-am Quotation

cashes the are and king of spades. - - dlgdalnjng the finesse, and lead; he was afraid it he didn't get all V A S V A H S M F B H ll Z H OlB J C F T! dum.my's last heart-. East. is helpless. t-hose buds at ONCE Somebody 9159 w c L A W 0 M V F T I B, X F W W F '1' I N O

If he rulfs in to keep South from making another small trump, south simply ti-lrowa of his losing spade; and it Eut prefers to discard his spade queen on dummy: last heart, South gets in another low trump on

would

It was Tommy Tit the Chickadee who first discovered the visitors in the old Orchard. "Dee. dee. dee. dee!” he cried. "What are you talks doing over here?"

a. ruff, and the trump ace is the lultlillng trick.

"Getting a good breakfast.” FED”- ed Mrs. Grouse, mildly,

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was worse, East's in the biddin or IV "I alwafvs Hlmk 0' you 35 mu” ” ' 76 '9 X amm,-5 in the play, '1' By lhornton W. Burgess iognihe tmgsl ' , ll It-G” 'P:', - .; We are,' said Mrs. Grouse, "We a tvl i (Aux l, h , "But you don't belong over here!" Rufred Grouse are truly Green ':.7 xx (-34; No h dealer , A GOOD BREAKFAST cl-led Tommy Tn. Forest folk, but we have cousins I I .30 h W395 V”l"'”bl'- "mdf ”I don't know why we don't," oe-l "Abnf,p,;ffm?di,E-p;,;;'i4:”' I -t; J ; AKJ flt11'”;11".: b:'M-ltifzlf-it; "1; WM n-"- nA”h-m'"' -' " V"-r--no k. 1 j y , K .AJ85 o 5.ar a 53.15 ac ry ay. , o OK74 -Thunderer the Grouse. xx , x t ' dAQm x d x xl O 3953 4 Q19 4 Long ago Thunderer the Grouse. ACROSS 17' Hebrewuw VQ1097 ' K33 who with Mrs Grouse lives in the Lpluu LARMS (van) B 2 W E ,1 10 9 , i . i 5. Contained workroom 20. Mountain E y 6363 , Green Forest, discoveled that the asporu 2,Ever(poct.) dmle G ' S 4' best way in which to start a day is 3 Admkin 22,M,,1emts B ' , y - G85 2 with a lull crop All through the gwup ' g - I Tl'"5 "M37 an WE VFVOUDONW . 9 7 2 summer this is an eas thin to do m' Gen": cup (Scot) 25' Mm E! LOCK” W1 Fla-DMNTED WNW I'LL TAKE g4 mm M We the hi; merge , 6 otlily 4.Aroodnsh 27. Employed B. i. METDFIND... L731. g AS6532 t bl 1V mn d b. ll! ii. Pocket- 5.Exclama- 29.l3amboo- 9 ou.Dg:AYR. ; Hoes nus um . .205; ..::r..::' .. :1”?-1 .. .. ';k??i”i A. . . . - . ” .. cai .. rle .. rim ' ” l "' 'V The bidding: V ' cornered sweet. little beechnuts, and lipubncy -,,1f,u,,g,, 31,9315.”

ho!-HI East South West the acorns have been eaten, or "nut, ggunaway gmswmparg rule da)-'uAnuvu-r

ZNT Pm 40 Fun -Wired away by others. or covered 16. Vent l1.Inslde ofariver 42. Malayan not;

50 gbl. (l) Redbl. Pass tzithblsniluv, taant there is any real 18.DL3ung of hmd 34,og1ed 45,Excgva1e

P8-93 153 011 5 11 89 E 11 890d bTB3kfBMv 19. Sauclness 12. Wizard: 37. Slmpletoni 47. Dip slightly

Easta double was certainly a A5 the days now shorter and cold- (slang) 14.shelior 40. Ancient into water

little premature. to put it mildly, 9-” ft became-5 m0-'5 and 1110?? 2l.Jog atrunk Gas-he capital 49.Therefore

since the course or the opponent.-.' dlmcult i0 89'? 3 900d 111981 Rt mi)" 23. Masurium

bidding pointed clearly to the met ”m9 "I d3.l'- Ellen 50 Thlmde”-'T (Slim-) '

mm; may would go on go A slam, and Mrs. Grouse are better off than 24,Extinct

! In the postmm-mm scum actually some of their neighbors for always birds (N. Z.) mid tn”, ha had me 3ix.diamond the trees have buds of next year's 26.Like croup g M. W". bid on the up of his tongue but of leaves all wrapped in little brown 28.Rivel-5 . . -. .. - mung when East dnublm five dm. coverimzs, And to the Grouse these Ii0.More .' b1 1 P I k B 1., J , monda, the redouble became a for an vrood eatmrz. comtor a c i . 0c 21 on '21 .V l 31111 '15 19 better action, The same toad day aiirr dav ivar.) V i . becomes tire , an so It ' 32.Withe ,, V V atggllznwag0,:thl:rl;)a3r(;Flc::1,f0;2.i:n um Mn a,,,fo13;,:. G,?,,Me hadubaf, 35, F31-mr VEAH. sue was our our :,A)i' HE owsl'l:.,a TH' . oz-4,uo.' I yluvus ma ccooowla " . it Came to plarlnlz the hand. he COW Very Wed "i ll" b”d5 "11 ”” mm” JR 555.6” W E? 'llZc:l557g's5lJlaai:oIJDxlE:L;aLlrg'" , 3?-3 ggwAsii?gLAN;l2:E1' '9c93"l3I!"5 :3: 5u3”n9u:Z”'z5l;.ou... :5E'rwvool2 SUCKER was anmllng hut logical. West spruce trees. and such other buds 36.A,0m1 gigff '” gglN',”lAvc,pqygp. s i M A W5, " ( stoma "mu ” .aIwor:'ro6r.pn'-gr , nFm'Aau:-w'rxw- X opened the heart ten. Thr. ace won. "5 l-119." "Mild RM U W33 NW1 NW "539 LE," M ,.,,,.,,.,l l r o T'ME r'5'.lt.V LUFK A7 4

and South laid down the trump MT-V GFOU” Y9'""'"b91'Cd "1? Old 33vp"”'"'1 - lllnwinnlav ' "s 7 AMW” ("Wt

king. West": showing out confirmed Orchard W119” the Emile VFFFF OHM.” -r 4

the news broadcast hy East's RI'0l;'r.1'I'lie truit buds and leaf buds iigqlalltl

double and now that declarer knew 0T1 r 6 am) 9 N98 "mild hr R WeI- '

he would have to lose two trump c0mE Chanlle l3'H9b"'”

rm-,'lg, he apparently dpcidgd that Thundernr was for min; over NEW"

miy 3, succegsful 11119559,; in spades there at 0il('P that very ait.ernoon. ”'AC0”Pl5

mum gave him, so he way; that but wise Mrs. Grouse said "No" ”5'5q”3l'd

V tinmse as and mounrtully watched The-.V Would so vextv earlv In the lacbddessd the enemy score up 300 pointg. morning. They would have break- M dlscor South's nation that he negded fast there instead of dinner. so it 50'Bl”dm me spadg finesse - or, in put it, was that the next morning when 51'f:d5i:n

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